American
Cuisine
Chocolate wafers
ingredients:
- 1 cup butter,
room temperature.
- 1 cup
powdered sugar.
- 1 tsp vanilla
extract.
- 1 cup
unsweetened cocoa powder.
- ¾ tsp salt.
- 1 ½ cups cake
flour (all-purpose would work).
Chocolate peppermint
coating ingredients:
- 1 pound
semi-sweet chocolate, chopped.- 1 tsp peppermint
extract.
Cookie dough
directions:
- In a mixer
cream the butter until it is light and fluffy.
- Add the
powdered sugar and continue to cream, scraping the sides of the bowl a couple
times if necessary.
- Stir in the
vanilla extract, salt, and cocoa powder. Mix until the cocoa powder is
integrated and the batter is smooth and creamy, resembling a thick frosting.
- Add the flour
and mix just until the batter is no longer dusty looking but still a bit
crumbly.
- Turn the
dough out onto a clean counter, gather it into a ball, and knead it together
into a nice, smooth mass.
- Divide the
dough in 2, flatten into disks, and wrap in plastic wrap. Chill for 15 minutes.
- Preheat oven
to 350.
- Roll dough
out really thin, about ⅛ inch. You can either roll it out between 2 sheets of
plastic, or dust your counter and rolling pin with a bit of flour and do it that
way.
- If the dough
is too firm to roll you can microwave it for 5 seconds.
- Bake the
cookies
for 10 minutes.
- Remove the
cookies from the oven and allow them to cool completely on a wire rack.
Coating directions:
- Using a
double boiler, slowly melt the chocolate, stirring occasionally until it is
glossy and smooth.
- You can add 1
tbsp of shortening if the chocolate is too thick. Alternatively, use a
microwave in short 15 to 20 second bursts to melt the chocolate.
- Stir in the
peppermint extract if you don’t have the mint candy melts.
- Using a fork
gently drop the cookies one at a time into the chocolate coating. Flip to coat
all sides.
- Lift the
cookie out of the chocolate with the fork and bang the fork on the side of the
pan to drain any extra chocolate off the cookie.
- Place on a
parchment lined baking sheet, and repeat for the rest of the cookies.
- Place the
cookies in the refrigerator or freezer to set.